Final Fantasy X Stat Maxing Guide Episode 2: Don Tonberry Trick and Kottos!
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- Опубликовано: 11 сен 2024
- Hello all, and welcome to my Stat-maxing guide for Final Fantasy X!
These videos aim to show the best tips and tricks to max your stats on Final Fantasy X and legitimately beat the Dark Aeons without just summoning Yojimbo and praying for Zanmato.
There are lots of things that players don't generally consider when doing the endgame sections of the game, and you can save yourself hours and hours of time if you use the correct techniques and complete the process in a specific order. You should capture 10 of every Monster from every area before embarking on your stat-maxing journey, so check out my Capturing tips videos to help with that if you haven't done so already.
This episode focuses on the Don Tonberry trick and beating Kottos.
The Don Tonberry trick takes advantage of the massive damage that his counter attack 'Karma' does by converting the Overdrive gauge gain into AP to get 99 Sphere levels for all 3 characters in only 1 fight! Fortunately BDE has already done a brilliant summary of this trick in the guide below, so read this for more info! I will just add that you can optionally use Rikku's Mix Eccentrick (Twin Stars + Gambler's Spirit) to double your AP gain if you're really impatient, and Rikku has full Overdrive gauge before you change her to Comrade or Stoic.
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Kottos drops 20 Healing Springs as his normal drop, so 40 with an Overkill. You can take advantage of this by using an Extract skill or a Distiller item to change those 40 items into Power, Speed or Mana Spheres. Kottos is reasonably strong at lower levels but you can still take him out as long as 2 or more characters have Auto-Phoenix.
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SUMMARY
For this set of videos, this series focuses on Stat-maxing using the Standard Sphere Grid and 9999HP. The best way to do this is to activate every existing node on the grid and then add the required number of extra stat nodes for each stat to get 255 Strength, Defence and Magic Defence and Accuracy with 114 Luck, 176 Evasion, 170+ Agility. 255 Magic is optional and not required.
Totals required for Standard Grid, no Clear Spheres, 114 Luck
20 Strength Spheres (can include 1 from blitz, 1 Yojimbo's Fayth, 3 Dodging lightning bolts)
25 Defence
27 Magic (do last, max Yuna, Anima Flares)
32 Magic Defence (had 64)
0 Agility for 170 (19 for 250)
46 Accuracy
13 Evasion (32 for 255)
24 Luck (113 or 114 Luck) and approx 168 Fortune Spheres for 7 characters
Useful Resources:
Stat Maxing Guide:
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Jegged.com:
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BrainDamageEclipse's quick guides:
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FFX Index database:
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I had only the „overdrive to ap“ build no double / triple ap and I can confirm it works as well like that if you don’t have the other things. Just takes a bit longer. Still managed to get 100 levels in around 15 mins. Good luck everyone
You probably never played original on PS2... Ofc it works!!!
i've always liked keeping rikku's hp and defense as low as possible.
this is so that kottos becomes the main AP gain enemy. her lowest hp
allows his counters to pretty much get everyone enough AP for 99 sphere
levels, even with just a few counters without triple AP/overdrive gain.
it also eliminates the need to farm kills for the king. it also allows
you to farm 40 spheres (or was it 60?) at the same time.
it's a great multipurpose fight, and you can always use clear spheres to drop her hp/defense down if you boosted her.
That's a fine alternative, but by the time you've done capturing then at least one of your characters should have high enough kills to easily get 99 levels from Don Ton.
You'd never need to clear spheres unless you were doing 99K HP otherwise that's just a little inefficient; in the Max HP stat maxing guide I keep Rikku's HP at min for as long as possible.
@@DPhoenix237 63 of each sphere may be inefficient, but i was one of those that enjoyed having a sectioned off grid as opposed to adding in the minimum to get everyone to 255 from the empty spaces.
also by using kottos you can skip the time on don's animation and instead skip straight to gaining the spheres you need to use the grid. it only takes a couple counters from him with rikku's low hp to easily max out even without triple ap/overdrive. none of my playthroughs has gotten me to 99,999 from grudge, since i've always had the kills more or less spread out. that's on top of multiple people capturing.
Really helpful again, like the one eye video, thanks.
You're welcome 😊
There's an easier way to do this. Instead of Tomberry, use the Cactuar King as this fiend just use single target attacks. Same autofenix in 2 characters, then cast haste on cactuar king. Every ally using comrade overdrive mode. And you don't even need to attack him. Just press skip all the time and restart the battle if he runs away. You don't need to repeat the cycle too often as vs Tomberry, as you don't kill it. You can watch videos or the tv meanwhile and it's less boring. Just check from time to time Cactuar didn't leave the combat. This save you some money too.
It's only marginally easier though man, and it's not better.
Using Don Tonberry, you guarantee that 2 characters get the Comrade and 1 character gets the Stoic every time if Karma does 99k damage.
Cactuar attacks randomly with 99999 needles, and his 10000 needles counter is less effective because the AP from Overdrive to AP reduces by 10% each time.
It's a decent alternative though, if you don't like the DT method for some reason.
Good stuff mate :)
I think im more amazed at the fact you've done all this in 65 hours of gameplay
Yeah, I wanted the walkthrough to be as comprehensive as possible whilst not focusing on grinding. A lot of what I do well in FFX is about doing things in the right order and getting ahead of the curve to go from strength to strength.
I've go it down to about 47-49 hours for beating Nemesis/Penance in one playthrough iirc.
Excellent video! But I've found a bit of a problem. You have to capture every enemy for the 99x Winning Formula, but the Puroboros doesn't spawn in the Omega Ruins until after Omega is defeated, and he's a 999k hp superboss! How am I supposed to defeat him before stat maxing.
They do spawn, they're just relatively rare. Check out the capturing episodes of my Expert Grid playthrough where I do the full capturing; there are certain areas in the ruins where certain enemies show up, like Machea and Puroboros. You'll encounter them eventually 👍
@@DPhoenix237 Wow, thanks for the speedy reply, I heard they didn't spawn but I guess that's just misinformation. I must be seriously unlucky, I've managed to max out machea without a single Puroboros 😁
@@castrorabbitdj I just happened to be answering previous comments, so serendipitous timing I guess.
And yeah, it's probably the set area thing. In that Expert grid playthrough I couldn't find Machea for ages, but then found a bunch all at once when in the right area. Probably similar for you and the Purobs.
Hey Phoenix! I know it's a bit off topic but since I regard you as one of the people with the most experience with The Witcher 3, I would like to ask you a couple of questions regarding a build. Is there a way I can contact you? PM, Discord and such? If you don't want to I'll just type in the comments somewhere
You can do, but I'll not sugar coat it I don't have much patience for private messages if it's stuff that I've already put in my videos or it's going to take up a lot of my time. I'll just tell you to watch the videos if that's the case 😉. I'm on Discord in The Witcher, my # is 0973
@@DPhoenix237 its a mechanic question about the inbigoration enchamtment. I only found a single reddit post that somewhat covers my question but not very well. Ill give you more details on discord tho
@@DPhoenix237 Also I didn't find you on the witcher server but I think I sent you a friend request
@@lamboronald489 Didnt get any requests on Discord man; Demonphoenix237#0973
I cant remember how many strength spheres ive already used so i dont wanna just put them anywhere. So i guess i gotta fill out the whole grid and then just teleport/return to empty slots. On one character - then easily just fill out on the rest
I tried this ran out of items for the grid but I did this essentially straight after zanarkand. So I just took the gear and super leveled while capturing.
I’ve found Dark Ixion is more effective and faster using same method. And there’s a save sphere right next to him. Plus you save money
Yeah it's a decent alternative. He randomly targets your characters though so it can be annoying because of that and can take longer if you're unlucky. Defo a good alternative though, especially if you don't have one character who DT hits for 99k.
How are you skipping their turns? It looks like you're selecting attack but they aren't attacking.
Press Y or Triangle to Defend.
@@DPhoenix237 WtF, I don't think the game ever tells you this.....
Hmmmm, I don't know be honest...I never pay attention to the tutorials anymore. It might do at some point, but I couldn't tell you.
@@ShredHeadJHJ scan king behemoth
Trying to get the platinum here, I will need to do this with all characters...farming weapons and itens is way worse than the actual AP farming. Any tip to make the non main characters level up faster? Or should I just make the same weapons for a secondary party?
Same weapons for a secondary party, but you'd still use Tidus (or whoever has enough kills to get hit for 99k) as the Stoic, and do the other characters two at a time with Comrade as theirs.
@@DPhoenix237 thanks dude
you don't need triple overdrive. Just have overdrive --> ap and triple AP.
set all your main characters set to comrade.
get don-tomberry to hit character with most damage, and defend with others.
This way you will get about 50 s-levels in less than 10 minutes. All the grinding needed to add triple overdrive is not worth it.
You get 99 Winning Formula for free; there's no reason not to use Triple OD on at least 3 characters.
You also get the money from selling weapons when Luck farming, and that gets you enough to bribe for another character.
You also get 99 Underdog Secret if you get the 26 Primers. There's no reason to not use Triple OD or Double OD on every character. It costs literally nothing if done properly.
@@DPhoenix237 Ah.. I see. Thanks for the explanation. I missed that part. I just got the 99 underdog secret from Rin. Did not realize that there is a way to get this. Thanks!
Out of all of the FF games, 100 percent and stat maxing is the most tedious, boring, and difficult of them all. It's the only game I didn't 100 percent, I was losing my sanity.
It's really not so bad if you use these optimal techniques imho.
Capturing can be a grind if you don't know where to find specific enemies and how to set it up properly, and so can Sphere Grinding if you don't do it efficiently.
There's no way around the fact that doing a BHPL and/or 230 Luck playthrough is a long grind either way, though! And the minigames suck.
@@DPhoenix237 Mini games are done! Capturing is done! Celestial Weapons done! It's the Sphere grid grinding, BHPL and Ribbon for these creature creations and dark Aeons... It just looks like it will take 2000 hours lol. Maybe I'm wrong.
I used just ap to overdrive and used dark aeon ixion as ive not unlocked this monster. Im trying to farm the triple ap weapons but am not getting one with two slots free
Yeah it's just random unfortunately; you'll get em eventually, which is why it's useful to be able to kill One Eye quickly.
@@DPhoenix237 i managed to get them all, I noticed that when I put the characters in my party their weapons dropped more, and whoever did the final blow at the highest drop rate. I was using Auron and had tons of his by the end, compared to only 1-2 of everyone elses
Yep, it is a higher chance to get armour or weapons for the character that strikes the killing blow. It's still very random though so not too much of a concern most of the time
@@DPhoenix237 I was wondering to get Wakkas' sigil and all reels in the blitzball, do you have a guide or know of one thats like blitzball for dummies? i have never touched blitzball so I have no clue where to start. I want to just cheese my way through it rather than playing it properly if I can
@@lavayuki Yup, check the FFX Tips playlist on my channel. I did a video about the best team to use, and how to do it with the fewest games played. It still takes about 3-4 hours though.
I love this game since the ps2 era, but this max atribute process can really drag...
So how i know my character have 999 kills?
You don't need to; just use Tidus to kill most of the enemies whilst capturing. He'll rack up tons of kills if he has Auto-Haste or SOS-Haste (damage him with a spell like Drain, or something, and just leave him below half health).
Why I can't get AP after fleeing the battle ? I let everyone have a move at training course.
You must be doing something wrong, like not having the correct weapons equipped or not having the correct Overdrive move?
@@DPhoenix237 Thanks for answering me. My English is not good a at all. Ok. I equipped overdrive to ap ,double overdrive and double ap , Yuna's overdrive mode is stoic , others is combrade , I wait until the monster hit Yuna and then I flee.
@@dawn5194 Yeah, wait until the monster hits Yuna, then make sure you Defend with all three characters first (so that everyone has taken a turn) and THEN Flee.
@@DPhoenix237 Oh , thank you , I did it !!!!
Triple overdrive is overkill. Dont bother with that. Just Triple Ap and Overdrive -> AP is more than good enough.
Essentially true, but it takes longer and you get 100 Winning Formula from doing capturing anyway.
Oh no, no access to the easy modes of the game 😢
Thanks bro
Wtf!?!?!? I only got 2 power spheres from Kottos!!! What gives?
Ha, there's a 1 in 8 chance that you get the rare drop instead of the common drop.
Every creation in the arena can drop 2x Dark Matter as the rare drop, and if you would've got that then unfortunate you only get 2x Power Spheres instead! It's annoying, but nothing you can do about it. 7/8 of the time you'll get the 40 Spheres like normal.